We just returned from WDW and I'd say that the guided tour isn't worth it without the dessert party. Our family loves Star Wars - our only true complaint about the tour is that there just arent enough interesting Star Wars activities to do for the 7 hours of time committed. The Path of the Jedi movie is like a DVD extra and nothing special and the CMs didn't add a lot of info as we walked from place to place. The special entrance to Star Tours and info about the ride and its design was fun and DD (11) enjoyed walking with the first order in the parade. The special viewing area for the quick stage show was nice but not necessary the day we were there. It was blazing hot and the tour CMs gave us plenty of bottles of water and cool towels, which was nice. We learned about a good hidden Mickey in the Launch Bay exhibits (highlight of the tour for my DH!). During the dessert party, the guided tour gave us line breaking rights to Kylo Ren and Chewy but not BB-8 and the lines were super short anyway. Dessert party was ok - yummy bread pudding and bc of the open bar would be better value for heavy drinkers, which we aren't. The parting gift was a giant plastic tie fighter with a strap that you can get as a souvenir popcorn holder at a popcorn stand-- shoving three of these into our bags for the way home was a packing feat! The fireworks/laser show is awesome but you can see it well from lots of places and non-tour people were in our roped-off zone, maybe from FPs? All in all, while a fun day, we thought it would have been better if the CMs, who were perfectly pleasant - nothing against them, had more inside information or were involved with the movies somehow. They didn't add much at all. The Backlot Express food was truly awful but we met a nice family at dinner so it was fun. Jedi training was rained out (tour gave us ponchos and we rode Toy Story Mania instead) and they scheduled DD to come back to do it another day- I hadn't planned to return to DHS during this trip so it changed our plans for that day (no biggie for anyone other than me, since I plan our days!). When we returned, the Jedi training rescheduling had not been set up correctly and DD was scheduled to do it on a day after we went home, obv not helpful. After a little confusion, the CMs figured out what happened, let DD participate then and there and gave us lots of FPs for our trouble, which was fantastic except DD used them to ride star tours three times in a row ! In any event, if they take away the dessert party I just don't think it's worth the price anymore. I kind of wasn't sure it was worth it even with the dessert party but if you added up the value of all the things you get, it was a good deal. Our family enjoyed it because we enjoy anything Star Wars!
